Transit Casualty Company v. Bell

JACKSON, Justice:

This original proceeding for writ of prohibition, brought by the defendants in an action filed in the District Court of Pitts-burg County, challenges the jurisdiction of that court for lack of venue.

The action was for damages for the wrongful death of George P. Wooldridge in an auto-truck collision in Coal County, and venue in Pittsburg County was predicated solely upon the residence of one of the co-administrators of his estate in that county.

Defendants, allegedly jointly liable, were the owner of the truck, Jack Stewart, described in plaintiff’s petition as a “ ‘Class B’…